The Michelin Man giveth, and the Michelin Man taketh away. A week in advance of the release of the 2013 Michelin Guide, the highly respected restaurant rating group announced the recipients of its Bib Gourmand designations, given to inspectors' favorites that deliver good value. There are 64 Chicago restaurants on the 2013 list, up from 56 last year. Of those, 19 restaurants earned Bib Gourmand recognition for the first time. On the downside, 11 of last year's Bib Gourmand recipients were cut from this year's list.

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Rengan Rajaratnam, the younger brother of imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, urged a U.S. judge on Friday to dismiss insider trading charges leveled against him last year. In a motion filed in U.S. District Court in New York, his lawyers argued the government had taken positions in the indictment that contradicted positions prosecutors took in trying his older brother for insider trading. "Principles of fairness dictate that Rengan, at a minimum, should be tried under the same standard as Raj," the defense lawyers wrote in the motion.

After they hid their passports under the TV in their hotel room in Mumbai, India, and slid the couch to the window to guard against explosions, Raj and Alyssa Kamruddin called the U.S. Embassy. They were staying 7 miles from where most of the terrorist attacks were occurring, but they were panicking. The Elmhurst couple knew terrorists were targeting Westerners in luxury hotels. The Kamruddins, who were in India visiting relatives, were staying in the high-end J.W. Marriott and had heard that some attackers had checked into the rooms before the assaults.

In this age of global cuisine, culinary odd couples pop up all over. Here's one worth noting: The name of the restaurant, Rajun Cajun, implies Louisiana bayou cooking, until you ask owner Trushar Patel for its proper pronunciation. Raj-JAHN Cajun. As in Raj, the Indian name for king. Then you walk in this single-room, cafeteria-style eatery, hear the Indian pop music remixed to Kanye West, and see the steaming trays of tandoori chicken, lamb curry and samosas. You start to wonder: What's so Cajun about the restaurant?

A service station in Merrill, Wis., that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices. Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 cents less per gallon. But the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection says those deals violate Wisconsin's Unfair Sales Act, which requires stations to sell gas for about 9.2 percent more than the wholesale price.

Kanye West's publicist is dismissing widespread claims that a music promotion company paid nearly $4,000 to fly a fully cooked meal from Wales to New York for the rapper, The Associated Press reported. Earlier reports that the British Raj restaurant would fly the meal of fish, vegetables, chapati breads and other Indian delicacies, along with the restaurant's head chef, to New York were "patently false," publicist Gabe Tesoriero said Tuesday. "Kanye is in L.A. working on his TV show.

Communist rebels attacked a police station in a remote mountain village Sunday, killing at least 40 police officers and injuring 19 others, a government minister said. There were 70 officers stationed at the post in Bhiman village, about 100 miles southeast of the capital, Katmandu, and the remaining officers were believed to be hiding in the nearby jungle, Deputy Home Minister Devendra Raj Kadel said. The insurgents have been battling to overthrow Nepal's constitutional monarchy since 1996.